Nelson Cabral

Nelson Cabral

Creatively acclaimed and internationally recognized Innovation Expert Nelson Cabral built his career in Toronto until his 2006 move to Sackville, New Brunswick. Nelson spent the better part of his career in Toronto as a successful and award-winning Business Leader and Senior Executive in the industries of advertising, marketing, design, and entertainment. His career also includes stints in Europe and South America where he worked with leading creative agencies.

Nelson has been leading teams, building companies, and inspiring breakthrough innovative thinking on Fortune 500 brands for over 20 years. He’s been an award winning advertising Writer and Creative Director for some of the world’s most respected global brands including adidas, Air Canada, Anheuser-Busch, Bridgestone-Firestone, Cadbury, GE, Kellogg’s, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, Toshiba, and many others. His work has been recognized by The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, The London International Advertising Awards, The New York Festivals of Advertising, The Crystals, Mobius, The Marketing Awards, and his Pro-Line “Bar Hopping Aliens” TV spot won first place, “best TV spot in Canada”, in Playback Magazine’s TOP SPOT AWARDS.

With dramatic stage presence and contagious enthusiasm, Nelson delivers business keynotes, consulting, and training focused on building creative organizations and cultures around them. As the world’s only Triple Threat Creative Leadership Expert, Innovation Facilitator, and management consultant to brands and CEOs, he shares with audiences his management approaches and leadership philosophies from decades worth of experiences as an award-winning advertising executive creative director, TV, film and video director, and a Broadway musical theatre leading man. Nelson believes creativity requires stimulation and collaboration, and you, as the leader, have the responsibility to unleash a creative storm in your team.

Now a Professional Speaker, Corporate Trainer, and Innovation Facilitator, Nelson continues to energize leaders, teams and organizations to boost management effectiveness, drive superior levels of performance, and build pervasive cultures of innovation. He is also the author of “The Creative Storm” book series.

Nelson holds a Master’s Degree in Political Science and Criminology from the University of Toronto. He was recently President of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers (CAPS) and is a distinguished member of Canada’s Professional Performers Union, ACTRA. Progress Magazine recently named Nelson and his brand management/boutique training firm CABRAL Creative Leadership Inc. a “Fastest Growing Company”, having landed #2 on the ONES TO WATCH list, with 1227% growth.

According to a study by IBM, CEOs cited creativity as the most important leadership quality over the next five years. So Nelson fresh perspective on creative leadership and innovation is hot and highly relevant – to today’s, and tomorrow’s, business market. He is on a mission to develop and inspire a new breed of leaders: a creative CEO in every enterprise.

NELSON CABRAL

International Keynote Speaker and Business Growth Expert, Nelson delivers inspiring business keynote addresses as well as training on leadership, innovation, creativity, and change.

Business Keynotes, Consulting, & Training programs can be customized from 90 minutes to half-day, full-day, and 2-3 day formats

Topic 1: Leadership, Creativity, & Performance

Session Title: The Future of Leadership – How to Ignite Creative Leadership in Your Organization

What You Will Learn:

How leaders can be more connected, collaborative and flexible to managing people and performance – versus traditional command and control leadership

Having recently delivered a national “Best Customer Experience” corporate training program to Mercedes-Benz leaders and teams across Canada, Nelson can help your team earn more sales, more referrals, and build lifetime relationships

How salespeople can use creativity to create and deliver a “unique” customer experience and “moments of delight”

Actionable takeaways on how to build long-lasting brand loyalty and a customer-centric business

Why the “Customer Experience” has become one of the last key differentiators as it relates to customer satisfaction, brand loyalty, and retention

Topic 6: Marketing & Branding

Session Title: The Creative Storm for Marketing Managers, Business Owners, & Entrepreneurs – How to Unleash the Beat of Your Brand

What You Will Learn:

As the Executive Creative director, Brand Strategist, and driving force behind some of the music industry’s greatest product brands, Nelson will show you what it takes to build and sustain a successful brand

How to out-think, out-perform, and out-maneuver the competition

How to uncover your competitive advantages and create messages and tactics that achieve real results

How strategic creativity can be used to attract and move people, build your brand, and win new business

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“Nelson’s business keynotes and innovation consulting are thoughtful and engaging. He analyzed the issues our team was having and presented actionable tools and strategies. I was particularly impressed with his interaction with employees, always putting them at ease and encouraging them to speak freely throughout his program.”

“Nelson was amazing with our team. I am actually in awe of his talent as a professional speaker and motivator. He was composed, confident, lucid in his thoughts and very personable. We learned a lot from Nelson. I have total respect for Nelson’s talent – and he is ‘The Creative Storm’!”

“I admit the honor of hosting Mr. Cabral at our offices in Warsaw, Poland, where he enraptured the staff and executive team with his winning formula for unlocking the hidden creative treasures within.”

“Nelson facilitated and keynoted our Executive Three-day Retreat. With some recent challenges, this was an excellent way to boost morale and productivity, while squeezing in some excellent teamwork and communications skills development. Because of Nelson, this was our BEST executive event ever. A keynote from Nelson will energize your team to take on the world!”

Bruce Fitch, Minister of Justice & Consumer Affairs, Minister of Economic Development, Leader of the Official Opposition, Government of New Brunswick

“Nelson’s keynote program to our Project Managers at our North American Conference was highly engaging and he was able to convey A LOT of highly useful management skills and strategies. Here’s what I heard from our PMIers/audience members: “Loved the “Lord Nelson” approach to be innovative – I will use it for my business; Great pace and masterful delivery; Nelson was great, and I’d love to see similar speakers for our events; Nelson was a great presenter and gave our team and managers a much needed spark and boost.”

Michael G. Smith, PMP, PMI Region 3 Summit Project Manager

“We’ve held many corporate team-building executive meetings and staff training seminars led by Nelson. We look forward to these events because they were creative and different each time and always resulted in a boost in morale and new ideas that we were able to develop into our business strategy, corporate culture, and brands.”

“Beneath Nelson’s warm and friendly demeanor exists a refined, powerful and visionary professional speaker. Nelson was the Writer, Creative Director, Brand Strategist, and dynamic force behind our nationally recognized “WIN-WIN” campaign, which garnered ALC a “Top 10 Marketer That Mattered” award from Marketing Magazine. The value of what Nelson does goes beyond his creativity – it is also passion and accountability that drives his desire to service clients and grow their business.”

“Nelson is a multi-talented, highly intelligent Innovation Director at the top of the North American market. He has the unique talent of understanding business analysis, priorities and imperatives; and uncovering strategies that meet the challenge. A true renaissance individual, he knows how to push the creative envelope while facilitating and presenting highly effective, real world business training and results.”

“We invited Nelson to be our keynote speaker to share his experiences and inspire other entrepreneurs. The entire audience was extremely impressed with Nelson’s keynote presentation, and his high quality of delivery demonstrated that he does his research and is always well-prepared. His passionate and enthusiastic style kept us entertained while imparting high quality insights.”

Karen Robinson, Executive Director, CBDC

“We greatly enjoyed Nelson’s creative approach in offering lasting innovation and creativity skills training to our corporate safety professionals. Feedback from the participants was overwhelmingly positive, and training has resulted in many “aha!” moments for the team.”

“Nelson’s workshops and executive team development retreats held every year are challenging, motivating and inspiring. Love his ‘Roxercises’. Our senior team always returns from them enlightened and reinvigorated to elevate communication and performance in our teams, and make our business and culture even stronger. Even better, Nelson has the ability to help us translate inspiration into action.”

“During Nelson’s Innovation Workshop, we experienced a tireless presenter who gets exceptional results. As a team builder, he is skilled at soliciting valuable information and navigating intense emotions. His outstanding training skills and calm professionalism forced group participants to stay focused while he pulled in all points of view and presented highly relevant and strategic information in a useable way.”

John Gallo, The Corporation of The Town of Aurora, York Region, Greater Toronto Area, Ontario

“If you need help in creating synergy and elevating management effectiveness in your leaders and managers, we recommend Nelson. We loved him because of his contagious enthusiasm and willingness to genuinely listen to our management team and inspire them to drive productivity and performance. The outcome of Nelson’s work was our leaders being prepared to drive business growth, capture employee commitment, and elevate performance.”

Andrew Peters, Mercedes-Benz Canada

“Nelson’s drive to help us succeed could be felt in every business keynote he delivered and every corporate meeting he facilitated. His creative leadership and inspiration has resulted in the most innovative and successful campaigns in our company’s history.”